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Meanings of death wish in English

Spanish
instinto de muerte

(Psychoanalysis) an unconscious urge to die.

instinto de muerte
Synonyms
Examples for "death instinct"
Examples for "death instinct"
1
The Death Instinct attempts to win Nirvana by destroying itself.
The Demolished Man
2
The Life Instinct and Death Instinct have defused.
The Demolished Man
3
The Life Instinct and the Death Instinct.
The Demolished Man
1
By the time he thought to ask another question, Thanatos was gone.
For Love Of Evil
2
When Thanatos changed, by assassinating the prior officeholder and taking his place.
For Love Of Evil
3
Eros and Thanatos, all in one, dressed in tux and top hat.
John Winchester’s Journal
4
Ares and Thanatos vaporized him with a double blast of godly wrath.
Percy Jackson’s Greek Gods
5
The labels remain unchanged-Eros, Logos, Thanatos-while the world undergoes drastic alterations.
The Civilization of Illiteracy
Usage of death wish in English
1
Definitely a food for someone with a bit of a death wish.
The Guardian
2
However, she rode the bike like a person with a death wish.
No mercy
3
It's hard not to suspect the party has a built-in death wish.
News.com.au
4
If he'd had a genuine death wish he'd be dead, wouldn't he?
Bangkok 8
5
The eyes held a death wish for Quinn- amutualloathing, Quinn realized.
By reason of insanity
6
The subconscious death wish, or only a screwball kid playing with dynamite?
Go home, stranger
7
He'd known they were individually suicidal; a mass death wish was something new.
Rogue One: A Star Wars Story
8
Yet no amount of fiscal nous will save clubs with a death wish.
The Guardian
9
I was terrified; I thought this was surely a death wish.
The Storyteller
10
In fairness to the conference organisers, the death wish is not quite terminal.
The Guardian
11
Anyone snooping around Ranger's private space would have to have a death wish.
Three to get deadly and four to score
12
In signing for Real, he counter-signed a death wish with Catalunya.
The Guardian
13
In Ghosts, Cave plays a psychotic provocateur with a death wish.
The Guardian
14
I retreat into the woods with a death wish upon me.
The Hunger Pains
15
Never underestimate a man who has a death wish on his former boss.
The Kingmaker
16
They nearly spotted him, Indigo and his succulent death wish girl.
Shadowglass: the shadowfae chronicles
Translations for death wish